Pavise

This article is about the skill known as Cancel in Path of Radiance. For the skill known as Cancel in Radiant Dawn, see Cancel.

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Pavise Icon of the Pavise ability in Three Houses. Chance to reduce sword/lance/axe/brawling damage by half. Trigger % = Dex stat.

Type(s) Class (Genealogy of the Holy War, The Sacred Stones, Awakening, Fates) Personal (Thracia 776, Radiant Dawn) Class (Mastery) (Path of Radiance, Three Houses) Item (Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Three Houses) Special (Heroes) Combat (Genealogy of the Holy War) Capacity 20 Game(s) Genealogy of the Holy War Thracia 776 The Sacred Stones Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn Awakening Fates Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Three Houses Heroes

Pavise (Japanese: 大盾 Great Shield), previously known as Great Shield and Cancel, is a combat skill debuting in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. In most appearances, when activated, it protects the user from a single attack by reducing or—prior to Awakening—completely nullifying the damage that would have been inflicted on them by that attack. The skill's activation rate has widely varied from game to game, as has its availability, but it is most commonly available to Generals and members of other advanced armored classes. Awakening split its functionality in two and restrict Pavise to working only against physical attacks, while a new skill, Aegis, offers the same protection against magical and bow attacks; Echoes: Shadows of Valentia also splits its functionality with another skill, Earth's Kiss in this case, with Pavise reducing physical damage and Earth's Kiss applying to magical damage. Additionally, only in Awakening and exclusive to enemies in Lunatic+ difficulty, an enhanced variation of this skill exists, known as Pavise+, which will always activate.

In Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, The Sacred Stones, Awakening, and Fates, Pavise is a class skill belonging to Generals and similar classes, and in Path of Radiance, Cancel is the mastery skill of the Hawk laguz. In Radiant Dawn, Pavise is a personal skill which can be equipped to any unit, while in Shadows of Valentia, it is an item skill associated with the Duma's Shield and Sage's Shield. In Three Houses, it is both a class skill associated with the Fortress Knight and an item skill associated with the Aegis Shield, Thyrsus, and the Fetters of Dromi that only activate if the items are equipped by a unit bearing the appropriate crest.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Genealogy of the Holy War		Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(User's level)%	--	--
Thracia 776		Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(User's level)%	--	--
The Sacred Stones	--	Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Enemy's level)%	--	--
Path of Radiance		Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Skill)%	20	--
Radiant Dawn		Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Skill)%	20	--
Awakening		Halves damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, Beaststones, Blighted Claws and Blighted Talons.	(Skill)%	--	Will not activate against a Dual Strike.
Awakening (Pavise+)		Halves damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, Beaststones, Blighted Claws and Blighted Talons.	--	--	Will not activate against a Dual Strike.
Fates		Halves damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, Beaststones, monster attacks, and automaton attacks.	(Skill)%	--	Must be triggered again for a Dual Strike. Base cost: 2000 G
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia		Halves damage dealt by physical strikes.	Command (Cost: 4 HP)	--	Requires 20 SP to learn.
Three Houses		Halves damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, gauntlets, gambits, and Crest Stones.	(Dexterity)%	--	--

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Cooldown	SP cost	Unusable by	Inheritable	Notes
Heroes		Reduces damage inflicted by attacks from adjacent foes by 50%.	3	200 SP			--

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Warriors		May reduce damage dealt to user by swords, lances, and axes; chance increases with user's Luck.	??	--	--

Availability

Genealogy of the Holy War

Units (As a class skill)	Hannibal After promotion: Arden
Classes	General • Baron • Emperor

Thracia 776

Units (As a personal skill)	Xavier
Classes	Baron

The Sacred Stones

Units (As a class skill)	After promotion: Amelia • Gilliam
Classes	General

Path of Radiance

Units (As a class skill)	Tibarn
Classes (Occult)	Hawk

Radiant Dawn

Units	Tibarn
Items	Pavise

Awakening

Pavise+

Unobtainable

Exclusively used by enemies on Lunatic+ Mode, and by enemies in Apotheosis on all difficulties.

Fates

Classes

General (Learned from Level 15 and up)

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Items

Duma's Shield

Warriors

Learned	Frederick (requires Frederick's Pebbles ×3)
Borrowed	Requires ×1 each of Frederick's Essence and Frederick's Ribbon Tie

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Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Genealogy of the Holy War	May protect user from all damage dealt by an attack.*	あいてのこうげきを うけとめダメージを むこうにする
Thracia 776	(LV%) chance to negate enemy's attack*	あいての攻撃を うけとめダメージを むこうにする
Path of Radiance	In certain conditions, nullifies enemy attacks.	??
Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu, NTSC-U)	Can nullify the effects of an enemy unit's attack.	発動すると 敵の攻撃を無効化する
Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu, PAL)	Can nullify the damage of an enemy unit's attack.	--
Radiant Dawn (help, NTSC-U)	Can nullify the effects of an enemy unit's attack.	??
Radiant Dawn (help, PAL)	Can nullify the damage of an enemy unit's attack.	--
Awakening	Halve sword/lance/axe/beaststone/ blight damage. Trigger % = (Skill stat)	技％の確率で発動　敵からの 剣・槍・斧などの攻撃ダメージ半減
Awakening (Pavise+)	Always halve sword/lance/ axe/beaststone damage.	必ず発動　敵からの 剣・槍・斧などの攻撃ダメージ半減
Fates	Halve sword/lance/axe/beaststone/fist/saw damage. Trigger % = (Skill stat)	技％で発動。剣・槍・斧・獣石・魔物・絡繰 の攻撃を受けた時、ダメージ半減
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	Halves physical damage.	物理攻撃によるダメージを 半減させる
Three Houses	Chance to reduce sword/lance/axe/brawling damage by half. Trigger % = Dex stat.	剣・槍・斧・格闘のダメージを 以下の確率で半減させる （技％）
Warriors	Reduces damage from axes, lances, and swords. Increases with Lck.	??

Trivia

• Pavise has appeared in all nine games in the main Fire Emblem series to feature a defined skill system.
• In The Sacred Stones, Great Shield will never activate if the enemy is attacking with a poison weapon (Toxin Lance, Poison Sword). This was implemented to prevent special effects conflicts with the purple glow used by poisoned units and the yellow glow produced by Great Shield.
• Radiant Dawn's US help description erroneously states that Pavise nullifies the effects of an enemy attack which is untrue as Pavise does not prevent poisoned weapons from poisoning the target. This was corrected in the European release.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	• Great Shield • Cancel • Pavise	• This name is used only in The Sacred Stones. • This name is used only in Path of Radiance. • A pavise is a long shield of Greco-Roman origin which covers the user's entire body. This name is used from Radiant Dawn onward.
English (unofficial)	Big Shield	Used in the Thracia 776 fan translation patch.
Japanese	• 大盾 • 翼の守護	• Great Shield. This name is used in all appearances except Path of Radiance. Referred to as PAVIS in its internal file name in Radiant Dawn. • Romanized as WINGSHIELD in its internal file name in Path of Radiance; literally, "winged protection". This name is used only in Path of Radiance.
Spanish	• Pavés • Guardia	• Pavise • Guard. This name is used only in Path of Radiance.
French	• Protection • Négation • Pavois	• Protection. This name is used in all titles but Path of Radiance and Heroes. • Negation. This name is used only in Path of Radiance. • Shield. This name is used only in Heroes.
German	• Pavise • Abbruch	• As above. • Cancellation. This name is used only in Path of Radiance.
Italian	• Ultradifesa • Revoca	• Ultra-defense • Revocation. This name is used only in Path of Radiance.
Portuguese (Brazil)	Pavês	Pavise
Korean	거대한 방패	Great Shield
Simplified Chinese	大盾	Great Shield
Traditional Chinese	大盾	Great Shield

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Pavise manual from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  Hannibal activating Pavise in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  Gilliam activating Great Shield in The Sacred Stones.

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  Janaff activating Cancel in Path of Radiance.

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  Meg activating Pavise in Radiant Dawn.

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  Kellam activating Pavise in Awakening.

See also

• Aegis
• Earth's Kiss

Special skills in Heroes

Area-of-effect skills Blazing Flame • Blazing Light • Blazing Thunder • Blazing Wind • Gifted Magic • Growing Flame • Growing Light • Growing Thunder • Growing Wind • Rising Flame • Rising Light • Rising Thunder • Rising Wind Defensive skills Aegis • Buckler • Circlet of Balance • Escutcheon • Godlike Reflexes • Holy Vestments • Ice Mirror • Life Unending • Miracle • Negating Fang • Pavise • Sacred Cowl Healing skills Aether • Daylight • Heavenly Light • Imbue • Mayhem Aether • Noontime • Open the Future • Radiant Aether • Righteous Wind • Sol Offensive skills Aether • Astra • Black Luna • Blue Flame • Bonfire • Brutal Shell • Chilling Wind • Circlet of Balance • Divine Pulse • Draconic Aura • Dragon Fang • Dragon Gaze • Enclosure • Fire Emblem • Glacies • Glimmer • Glowing Ember • Godlike Reflexes • Hero's Blood • Holy-Knight Aura • Iceberg • Ignis • Imperial Astra • Lethality • Luna • Lunar Flash • Mayhem Aether • Moonbow • New Moon • Night Sky • Open the Future • Radiant Aether • Regnal Astra • Reprisal • Retribution • Righteous Wind • Ruptured Sky • Seiðr Shell • Shining Emblem • Sirius • Sublime Heaven • Twin Blades • Vengeance • Vital Astra Staff specials Deluge Balm • Earthfire Balm • Earthwater Balm • Fireflood Balm • Heavenly Light • Imbue • Kindled-Fire Balm • Solid-Earth Balm • Still-Water Balm • Swift-Winds Balm • Windfire Balm Miscellaneous skills Galeforce • Njörun's Zeal • Requiem Dance • Umbra Blast • Umbra Calamity • Umbra Eruption